Ofuji, Keiko

Keiko Ofuji

Keiko Ofuji is a lecturer in the Asian Studies Program. She studied linguistics and the teaching of second languages, methods of teaching Japanese, and Japanese art and literature at the University of Kansas, Cornell University, and Colombia University. She received her M.A. degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Kansas. Her Masters thesis wasDowa (Human Rights) Education through Children’s Books.

Her teaching includes Japanese language courses at all levels and cultural courses on Japanese art and crafts as well as Japanese people and society including family, minority issues, education, conventions, and tradition. She also advises senior theses written in Japanese language.